Front-page article in The Washington Post about former KFC pitchman Jason Alexander and his request that KFC stop torturing animals

Black community leader The Rev. Al Sharpton has never been shy
about raising his voice—whether it’s on the pulpit or
on the presidential campaign trail. Now, Sharpton is speaking up
for the more than 850 million chickens raised and killed each year
for KFC, which announced plans at its investor meeting to market
more heavily to African-Americans.

Rev. Sharpton has filmed an appeal to be screened outside KFC restaurants in urban
centers across America, calling on the black community to boycott
KFC until the company makes basic improvements in animal welfare.
In the video, Sharpton outlines the
abuses that chickens raised for KFC suffer and takes KFC to
task. Sharpton says, “KFC is not black-owned, but it sure
knows to market heavily to African-Americans … obviously hoping
we won’t care about what they do the underdog, or in this
case, the underchicken …. So, if KFC wants to take our
money and use it to pay for sloppy practices that hurt animals—I
say we send them a message that this is not going to happen. I’m
calling on people to boycott KFC until they adopt animal welfare
systems recommended by PETA and until they stop the worst abuses
of the birds they raise for their restaurants.”